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A dance, piece of music, or interlude, performed between two acts of a drama.

The Muse who presided over music.

Of or pertaining to Euterpe or to music.

To elevate the tone of, as of the voice or a musical instrument. Is. xxxvii. 23. Now Mars, she said, let Fame exalt her voice. Prior.

One who executes or performs; esp., a performer on a musical instrument. Great executants on the organ. De Quincey.

To perform, as a piece of music, either on an instrument or with the voice; as, to execute a difficult part brilliantly.

n an instrument, of engraving, etc.; as, the execution of a statue, painting, or piece of music. The first quality of execution is truth. Ruskin.

for such ebbs; hence, a disquisition; a lesson; a task; as, military or naval exercises; musical exercises; an exercise in composition. The clumsy exercises of the European tourney. Prescott. He seems to have taken a degree, and preformed public exercises in Cambridge, in 1565. Brydges.

ity of being exhausted. I was seriously tormented by the thought of the exhaustibility of musical combinations. J. S. Mill.

A composition, as in music, or in the drama, designed to produce effect by its wild irregularity; esp., a musical caricature.

The act or manner of making or doing anything; -- now used of a literary, musical, or pictorial production. Bacon.

row dim; to vanish. The stars shall fade away. Addison He makes a swanlike end, Fading in music. Shak.

Resembling a fairy, or what is made or done be fairies; as, fairylike music.

osition, not divided into what are called movements, or governed by the ordinary rules of musical design, but in which the author's fancy roves unrestricted by set form.

To delight; to gratify; as, to feast the soul. Feast your ears with the music a while. Shak.

A complete or ridiculous failure, esp. of a musical performance, or of any pretentious undertaking.

A stringed instrument of music played with a bow; a violin; a kit.

one claw very much enlarged, and often holds it in a position similar to that in which a musician holds a fiddle, hence the name; -- called also calling crab, soldier crab, and fighting crab.

shrill pipe, resembling the piccolo flute, used chiefly to accompany the drum in military music. Fife major (Mil.), a noncommissioned officer who superintends the fifers of a regiment. -- Fife rail. (Naut.) (a) A rail about the mast, at the deck, to hold belaying pins, etc. (b) A railing around the break of a poop dec…

A form of melody or accompaniment kept up through a strain or passage; a musical or motive; a florid embellishment.